Painting History of Cave

Painting History of Cave

Painting Cave is located on the wall paintings of the cave or rock walls created by ancient people as a medium for conveying messages or event records. Visual form contained on cave walls as a means of communication between ancient humans.



Cave paintings found in the cave of El Castillo Spain Cantabria exact purpose of the Paleolithic cave paintings is not known. Evidence suggests that they are not only decorating the living room, because the cave where they had been found to have no signs of ongoing residence. They are also often located in areas that are not easily accessible caves. Some theories believe that cave paintings might be a way to communicate with others, while other theories assume religious or ceremonial purposes to them. The most common themes in cave paintings are large wild animals, such as bison, horses, aurochs, and deer, and tracing human hands as well as abstract patterns, called finger flutings. The species most often found suitable for hunting by humans, but not necessarily the actual prey typically found in bone-related deposits, such as painters of Lascaux have mainly left the bones of deer, but this species does not appear at all in the cave paintings, where the equine species is the most common. Figure humans are rare and are usually schematic rather than the more detailed drawings and naturalistic of animal subjects. One explanation for this may be that realistically painting the human form. Pigments used include red and yellow ocher, hematite, manganese oxide and charcoal. Sometimes the silhouette of the animal was incised first stone, and in some caves all or many images engraved only in this mode, bringing them slightly out of the strict definition of cave paintings. Similarly, large animals are also the most common subjects in the carved and engraved bone or ivory much smaller, more rare stones, pieces from the same period. But this group include statues of Venus, which has no real equivalent in the cave paintings.